Tyre

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

An ancient Phoenician city on the eastern Mediterranean Sea in present-day southern Lebanon. The capital of Phoenicia after the 11th century B.C., it was a flourishing commercial center noted for its purple dyestuffs and rich, silken clothing. Tyre was besieged and captured by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. and was finally destroyed by Muslims in A.D. 1291.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

proper n. An ancient sea port and city state of Phoenecia, in present-day Lebanon.

Examples

The problem with The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do by Peg Tyre is that it is a good book wrapped up in so many stereotypes it is difficult to find the true nuggets of knowledge.

"Two rescue workers, including the chief of the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre, Salam Daher (aka" Green Helmet "), were wounded by shrapnel during raids near the hospital where they had been rushing to help extinguish the fire, police said."

Among others, the body of a child recovered under the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli war plane missiles at the village of Qana near the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, is placed in an ambulance Sunday July 30.